Unit 3: The Secret Road to Freedom (1ère Générale)

Underground (TV Series)

The document under study is a trailer for the first season for a TV show entitled “Underground”, released in 2017. In this TV show, we are following two main characters: Noah and Rosalee, they are both slaves in the Macon plantation in Georgia. Noah works on the plantation and Rosalee is a house slave. Their goal is to escape from their condition as slaves through the Underground Railroad. It seems like they are helped by other slaves and station masters. We can see them making a plan to escape. Trying to flee is at the risk of their lives because slave catchers could be very violent. Moreover, the slaves who would stay in the plantation do not agree with the runaway slaves because their slave master would go mad and become more violent with them.

The commitment to the abolitionist cause is portrayed by a couple of white people working with a free black man risking their lives by hiding slaves in their house secretly.

The reasons why the slaves wanted to escape from slavery were because they found the situation unfair as they were forced to work for free, they were dehumanized and they wanted to fight for their rights.

They must have been scared because if the slave catchers would catch them, then they could be sent to jail, tortured or even killed.

Homework: Learn the lesson.